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Weird Speaker Placement Configurations


My latest listening room has presented me with many challenges, because it is not only a listening room, but also a "music room", study and spare living room.

So fitting everything, including a piano, a big desk and two sofas, working around a glass pocket door and fireplace, while accomodating Magneplanar Tympanis has been no small feat.

In the end, my solution has me sitting with my back in the corner of the room behind the desk most of the time.

This has me wondering: could it be possible to successfully fire speakers diagonally across a room?

Obviously there has been lots of discussion of short vs long walls, distance from walls etc. but is it possible to create the classic triangle where the speakers vary in their distances from their respective boundaries in the room?

Or would this create obvious problems?

Of course I can also experiment, but experimentation can be a full day's work with Tympanis.

Has anyone stumbled into success with an unusual or unexpected placement of their speakers?

Thank you,
cwlondon

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clio09
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This might help:

http://www.decware.com/paper14.htm

I've tried a couple of diagonal set-ups with both Spendor and Audiokinesis speakers. In most cases, you can get really good sound from this type of set-up.
clio09
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Yes in most cases you will get unequal distances. This is pointed out in the Decware white paper. The only scenario I can think of where this might not happen is in a square room.

However, the white paper also shows you the effects of the reflections in such a set-up and how they are more beneficial than some standard symmetrical set-ups. You may also want to refer to the Decware laser/mirror test that allows you to identify you own reflection points in a diagonal set-up so you can optimize placement.
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